Howe mentions that he is now working at brigade headquarters, in the commissary department, herding cattle.

Another letter about life in Gravelly Springs.

Howe notes that on the 13th the brigade began its summer campaign "which I expect will be down through Mississippi" (this would be Wilson's famous cavalry raid through Alabama and Georgia). He mentions that he was briefly captured by Confederate cavalry when out rounding up cattle, and robbed of everything by them.

Howe writes to Jeanette of his campaigning since March. He describes the battle of Selma, in which he fought, and mentions the capture of Jefferson Davis.

Contains a notation dated 1862 and brief diary entries for 1 to 3 January, 1864.

Copied by Howe from the Chattanooga Gazette.

Copied by Howe in Chattanooga, probably in 1864

Copied by Howe.

Detailing Howe for provost guard duty at brigade headquarters.

Contains one three cent bank note from 1863, along with the receipt for a $200 money order sent by Howe to Jeanette from Louisville, Kentucky in December 1864.

A typed notation on the envelope containing the book reads in part: "This is the needle book that my mother made and sent to grandpa when he was in the Army. He carried it all through the Civil war . . . ."

9 invitation cards to reunions of veterans from Howe's company after the war.

One copy of the Grand Army of the Republic Roster: Correct List of the Officers and Delegates of the Grand Army of the Republic, New York, 1885.

Two copies of the poem "Then And Now", written to Howe by A. R. Lebby, a southerner who met Howe when he was 84.

Contains Howe and Jeanette's marriage certificate, letters from Jeanette's family and records of a mortgage Howe and Jeanette took out in 1877.

Includes letters from Howe to his family, a record relating to his postwar work, notices on the deaths of family members and a record of funeral expenses.

Contains records of mortages of Howe and Jeanette, notices of deaths of family members, letters from relatives, and records of Howe's daughter Della.

Mainly correspondence and records of Della Howe.

Correspondence, records and newspaper clippings belonging to Howe's daughters Della and Olive or relating to them.

Correspondence from Howe's daughter and other family members, whose date or year cannot be determined.

Howe writes that he has been detailed to work in a sawmill near Chattanooga after his horse gave out. He provides a rosy assessment of the war.

Howe describes life at the mill. He notes that he is unable to join his regiment in battle and contemplates how much more money he'd make if he left the army.

Howe writes about war hearsay, life near Chattanooga and Jeanette's family.

Howe mentions that he has now been sent on detached duty to a place 60 miles east of Chattanooga to protect a logging operation on the banks of the Tennessee river.